Carlos Guastavino

Carlos Guastavino ( born April 5, 1912 in Santa Fe, † 28 October 2000) was an Argentine composer.

Guastavino had in Santa Fe Esperanza piano lessons with Lorraine and Dominga Iaffei, he continued in Buenos Aires in Germán de Elizalde. There, he also took composition lessons with Athos Palma. With a scholarship from the British Council he held from 1947 to 1949 in London. He took for the BBC 's own piano works based on, and under the direction of Walter Goehr played the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere of the orchestral version of the Tres Romances Argentinos.

Among the works of Guastavino's include more than 150 songs on texts by Rafael Alberty, Leon Benaros, Hamlet Lima Quintana, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. On behalf of Colonel Wassily de Basil, he composed the ballet fue una vez ... which was premiered by the Original Ballet Russe in 1942 at the Teatro Colon. His suite Argentina was performed by Isabel Lopez ' Ballet Espanol in London, Paris, Barcelona and Havana. Guastavino also composed numerous piano works (Extending the 10 Cantilenas Argentinas, 1956-58 ), three sonatas for guitar, other chamber music, choral music and other orchestral works, also numerous arrangements of their own works.

It was, inter alia, prizes the city of Buenos Aires, the Organization of American States and the Inter- American Music Council. Unlike his contemporaries Alberto Ginastera himself Guastavino was unaffected by the musical avant-garde. With its romantic tonal language he had great influence on the Argentine folk and popular music of the 1960s.

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• Compositores y Interpretes - Carlos Guastavino
• Fundación Ostinato - Carlos Guastavino
• The Guardian, December 15, 2000: obituary of Carlos Guastavino
• EPDLP - Carlos Guasstavino
• Klassika - Piano Works Guastavino

• Man
• Born in 1912
• Died in 2000
• Argentine composer